Given how most of the roads in the US are designed I'd have to say he's probably an idiot.
Sorry, but thats a simple fact you can verify by looking at how roads are designed.
I want this system to be rolled out in all civil service vehicles. The next bastard that gets in a high speed "pursuit" or pulles a right turn from the left lane across 3 lanes of traffice needs to be out on his ass and pronto.
You're assuming that the pilots are looking out the window on final, which they're not, and that you'll have an angle on them through the window, which you won't.
Also, that your laser will penetrate the glass of the window with sufficient coherence to blind someone.
The only thing this new mini-series did was make me appriciate the Lynch movie. Granted the movie had a few problems but overall it did manage to capture the mood and atmosphere in a manner that seemed compatible with the books.
This new mini-series had horrible writing, direction, casting, costuming, and scoring. The effects seem shallow and cheap and the sets do little to increase the impact of the story. Its nice that they tried to be more true to the book but I'm not willing to praise such a compromised effort. I'm sure the actors could have done much better given proper material so I can't place any blame on them but I don't see how this mini-series is going to do anyone's career much good in the long run.
A few obvious nits:
Maud'dib - doesn't mean 'messiah'. Maybe they were thinking of the Kwisatz Haderach?
The planet is 'Arrakis'. Was this mentioned even once in the MS?
CHOAM? Excuse me, but the political situation is far more complex than the MS makes out. Its like the MS expects that we've all read the book and are just hanging around for their eye-candy. Mentioning CHOAM might be wise if they want to try and make the MS more than just a stupid action flick.
The conquest of new frontiers has always cost human lives. History has shown that this cost is worth paying.
We need Mars in order to fuel our medical and techonological development for the next 250 years. (or should I say 'direct' or 'focus' instead of fuel?)
After that I have no doubt that other, newer frontiers will be open for human exploration.
"...but it's orders of magnitude worse when _people get killed_."
Its this crippling additude that has us stuck on the ground only dreaming of the stars.
How many test pilots were killed during the big push to bring new aircraft to the front during WWII? Did this mean that someone wasn't 'doing it right?' In some cases, maybe but in the long run it was less expensive to drive the learning curve with lives than it was with time and money.
We should expect to lose lives to the exploration of space. We should spend these lives as dearly as possible but we should not be afraid to spend them.
The cost for remaining on this one planet is far far greater than 100 or 1000 or 10000 lives lost in the conquest of space. Our species survival is at stake here. We -must- reach into space in order to avoid stagnation.
I'm sure glad I'm a BSD developer and don't feel the need to feed my fucking ego all the time. Check out the boot messages that FreeBSD emits; you'll note that there are -no- email addresses mentioned and that most drivers only print 2 or 3 lines.
I spend loads of time on FreeBSD and I could care less if some random luser knows my email address and that I worked on a driver that they use daily. Most of the BSD coders seem to feel this way.
I think it must have something to do with maturity or something.
Do keep FreeBSD in mind if you decide to split. We'd love more non-coders (since all of us freely admit to being less than vigilant in keeping documentation up to date.):)
I suggest that you've not seen enough animation.:) While a great deal of american cartoons and anime at large is action driven that is mostly an artifact of story and plot. "Heroic" characters weilding futuristic weapons or driving fantastic machines don't need emotion. Tom & Jerry don't need emotion.
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Given how most of the roads in the US are designed I'd have to say he's probably an idiot.
Sorry, but thats a simple fact you can verify by looking at how roads are designed.
I want this system to be rolled out in all civil service vehicles. The next bastard that gets in a high speed "pursuit" or pulles a right turn from the left lane across 3 lanes of traffice needs to be out on his ass and pronto.
You're assuming that the pilots are looking out the window on final, which they're not, and that you'll have an angle on them through the window, which you won't.
Also, that your laser will penetrate the glass of the window with sufficient coherence to blind someone.
ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/
.so files need to be relinked to work properly under FreeBSD.
Finished the kernel module port this morning.
Works on -CURRENT only right now.
Still no 3d support as NVIDIA's
Seamless?
You've got to be joking. Did you see the same 2 hours I did?
Every time they turned their heads the CG edit of the eyes faded out. I lost count of the number of scenes where normal eyes suddenly got blue.
The only thing this new mini-series did was make me appriciate the Lynch movie. Granted the movie had a few problems but overall it did manage to capture the mood and atmosphere in a manner that seemed compatible with the books.
This new mini-series had horrible writing, direction, casting, costuming, and scoring. The effects seem shallow and cheap and the sets do little to increase the impact of the story. Its nice that they tried to be more true to the book but I'm not willing to praise such a compromised effort. I'm sure the actors could have done much better given proper material so I can't place any blame on them but I don't see how this mini-series is going to do anyone's career much good in the long run.
A few obvious nits:
Maud'dib - doesn't mean 'messiah'. Maybe they were thinking of the Kwisatz Haderach?
The planet is 'Arrakis'. Was this mentioned even once in the MS?
CHOAM? Excuse me, but the political situation is far more complex than the MS makes out. Its like the MS expects that we've all read the book and are just hanging around for their eye-candy. Mentioning CHOAM might be wise if they want to try and make the MS more than just a stupid action flick.
I could go on for pages but I'll stop now.
*sigh*
Hey, it worked for me. We had a Connection Machine CM5 scale 3 in our apartment and ~4gigaflops for $300 makes it a much better buy than that Cray.
Don't all real geeks have a supercomputer in their garage or apartment? Am I the only one?
Funny. I have USB working on Win95. The update has nothing to do with PS/2s. (the USB portion of it at least.)
The conquest of new frontiers has always cost human lives. History has shown that this cost is worth paying.
We need Mars in order to fuel our medical and techonological development for the next 250 years.
(or should I say 'direct' or 'focus' instead of fuel?)
After that I have no doubt that other, newer frontiers will be open for human exploration.
"...but it's orders of magnitude worse when _people get killed_."
Its this crippling additude that has us stuck on the ground only dreaming of the stars.
How many test pilots were killed during the big push to bring new aircraft to the front during WWII? Did this mean that someone wasn't 'doing it right?' In some cases, maybe but in the long run it was less expensive to drive the learning curve with lives than it was with time and money.
We should expect to lose lives to the exploration of space. We should spend these lives as dearly as possible but we should not be afraid to spend them.
The cost for remaining on this one planet is far far greater than 100 or 1000 or 10000 lives lost in the conquest of space. Our species survival is at stake here. We -must- reach into space in order to avoid stagnation.
I'm sure glad I'm a BSD developer and don't feel the need to feed my fucking ego all the time. Check out the boot messages that FreeBSD emits; you'll note that there are -no- email addresses mentioned and that most drivers only print 2 or 3 lines.
I spend loads of time on FreeBSD and I could care less if some random luser knows my email address and that I worked on a driver that they use daily. Most of the BSD coders seem to feel this way.
I think it must have something to do with maturity or something.
Do keep FreeBSD in mind if you decide to split. We'd love more non-coders (since all of us freely admit to being less than vigilant in keeping documentation up to date.) :)
I suggest that you've not seen enough animation. :) While a great deal of american cartoons and anime at large is action driven that is mostly an artifact of story and plot. "Heroic" characters weilding futuristic weapons or driving fantastic machines don't need emotion. Tom & Jerry don't need emotion.
Try "Robot Carnival" for some anime with emotion.
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by Anthony and MargroffThats ok, us BSD folks still have no desire to use large chunks of Linux code.
You forgot the original site: The FreeBSD Token Ring Project