exactly. they haven't been; and the point is that if guns are so much worse than Napster, then how come it -is- Napster that is getting sued, and not the gun companies?
while I tend to agree, sure, Quake doesn't look much better if you run it at 100 fps on a 600 MHz chip or at 150 fps on a GHz chip, but start throwing in the FSAA and other shiney new effects, and watch those framerates go to hell on the slower processer. Game developerss are always going to find new ways to push processor limits in an effort towards "cinematic" looking 3D graphics
Right.....which is why the original poster criticized Intel for releasing this new 1.13 GHz chip in -Slot 1- only. There's no technical reasone why this couldn't have been FC-PGA, except for the fact that Intel wants you to rush out and by this new super duper fast Slot 1 processer that you can't upgrade later, as everything else has moved back to sockets
"The Postal Service sees the project mainly as an e-mail forwarding service. Signing up would be strictly voluntary, and consumers would have to supply their own Web access, be it via a paid service, such as America Online Inc., or a free one, such as NetZero or SpinWay.com. The Postal Service would forward e-mail arriving in a free account to consumers' existing e-mail addresses. For an extra fee, customers could maintain an account at the Postal Service where messages could be retrieved."
Further, to clear up the bit about paying $0.41 to get it printed out and delivered:
"Local post offices will make paper printouts of e-mail messages and deliver them with the snail mail, charging the sender about 41 cents for a two-page document -- an eight-cent premium to first-class mail."
While this is true, its important to remember that when the MPAA was first formed, it was as an attempt for Hollywood to self regulate itself, because they knew that if they didn't, the government would
The bit when all the mutant kids are goofing off behind the teacher's back in class; Jubilee makes a little fireball in her hand and starts playing with it, Iceman puts it out...don't know about Colossus though
So does anybody know if this will be making the same rounds that films like Toy Story 2 and Dinosaur did (i.e. the theaters equiped with the TI DLP systems?) I'd love to see this on a digital projector at the Harkin's here in Phoenix...
Having watched the entire Evangelion series in subbed Japanese, I just got the the first DVD collection, and I have to tell you, watching it with the English dub makes me physically ill. Not only is the voice acting piss poor, but I don't think that they did a good job of getting voice actors who's voices have the right intonation and subtleties. I had the same complaint with Lain; in Japanese, Lain's voice is meed and reserved, very fitting to the character. In English, she just sounds like a valley girl
True, much of the purely theoretical work does occur in an academic setting, most universities can't hold a candle to the resources present in a commercial biotech company to produce actual product. not only do they tend to have better physical resources, but the promise of higher salary and benefits attracts more scientific talent. believe me, if you had the choice between going to work for a high paying biotech company or staying at the university as a grad student for meager wages, where would you end up?
2001 did an EXCELLENT job of a realistic near-future space expidition. Aside from overly optimistic predictions of our progress by the year 2001, that is. Oh, and the sentient computer turning on its masters as well. (Both of these flaws can be forgiven tho I think, as they were very common themes in 1960's SciFi.)
Actually, one of the big things about 2001 when it came out was the fact that it was the first work of science fiction that blatantly broke Asimov's Laws of Robotics...sure, there had been killer robots around before, but none that were doing so of their own volition..
Many of the points of scientific creationism have been put to a scientific test, and failed miserably; people like Dwayne Gish and Henry Morris (of the Creation Research Institute), however, usually just tend to ignore the real science thats going on and focus on their own brand of rhetorical pseudoscience. Critical creationist "facts" such as the age of the earth and the Deluvian creation of the Grand Canyon truly do not stand up to serious geological investigation...the creationists are very fond of using data manipulation and a selective ignorance of findings to support their cause. They tend to make reference to older hypothesis and methods which, while they did have some scientific basis twenty years ago, have since been either disproven entirely or ammended (of course, the creationists never bother to mention this, and go on to use them to back up all of their claims). So yes, creationism can be viewed as a scientific theory, but when it does so, it fails miserably...
I think that the problem that a lot of people have with MtM, as opposed to Pitch Black, is that MtM has been making this big deal about how scientifically accurate its supposed to be (I've seen at least three or four TV specials where they drag out some NASA dude to comment on the authenticity of the spacecraft), and then throws the kind of crap like "That DNA looks human." Pitch Black never makes any claims to being anything other than fun. Movies don't always have to be ultra-realistic...but MtM was trying to claim that it was...
not to nitpick your nitpicking, but some of us geneticists do use those big color displays with rotating 3D models of a DNA strand...i'm writing my thesis on it...sometimes it can be quite helpful
my friends all look at me wierd when I crack up laughing everytime i hear that line in the commercials...maybe i've just been taking too many molecular biology classes, but that really makes me laugh
I hope that those reactions don't take place in our bodies, otherwise we'd all be green...and they most certainly do occur with mistakes...there's no way in hell that any biological process is 100% efficient
Mathematics is an abstract way of thinking though...the only reason that we can think about mathematics in the way we do is because we have defined it in the way we do...math is a descriptive discipline, not an emperic one
I know that you were being sarcastic, but a lot of sociologists do believe that the reason that we never had the big war with the USSR during the Cold War era was because we did have nukes. Both sides knew deep down that if they did start anything, we'd all be fucked...
This is a self enforcing arguement: The Bible says that itself is True, therefore it must be True. YThis is the classical arguement for the existance of God in classical philosophy, and really doesn't hold much, if any credence now adays. You should do some reading up on a priori and a posteriori logic
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exactly. they haven't been; and the point is that if guns are so much worse than Napster, then how come it -is- Napster that is getting sued, and not the gun companies?
while I tend to agree, sure, Quake doesn't look much better if you run it at 100 fps on a 600 MHz chip or at 150 fps on a GHz chip, but start throwing in the FSAA and other shiney new effects, and watch those framerates go to hell on the slower processer. Game developerss are always going to find new ways to push processor limits in an effort towards "cinematic" looking 3D graphics
Right.....which is why the original poster criticized Intel for releasing this new 1.13 GHz chip in -Slot 1- only. There's no technical reasone why this couldn't have been FC-PGA, except for the fact that Intel wants you to rush out and by this new super duper fast Slot 1 processer that you can't upgrade later, as everything else has moved back to sockets
Read the article:
"The Postal Service sees the project mainly as an e-mail forwarding service. Signing up would be strictly voluntary, and consumers would have to supply their own Web access, be it via a paid service, such as America Online Inc., or a free one, such as NetZero or SpinWay.com. The Postal Service would forward e-mail arriving in a free account to consumers' existing e-mail addresses. For an extra fee, customers could maintain an account at the Postal Service where messages could be retrieved."
Further, to clear up the bit about paying $0.41 to get it printed out and delivered:
"Local post offices will make paper printouts of e-mail messages and deliver them with the snail mail, charging the sender about 41 cents for a two-page document -- an eight-cent premium to first-class mail."
While this is true, its important to remember that when the MPAA was first formed, it was as an attempt for Hollywood to self regulate itself, because they knew that if they didn't, the government would
The bit when all the mutant kids are goofing off behind the teacher's back in class; Jubilee makes a little fireball in her hand and starts playing with it, Iceman puts it out...don't know about Colossus though
Yeah, but at least they're trying...i still get giggles when I think about that Mission to Mars ad campaign..."that looks like -human- DNA"
ooohhh, a whole -six- pages, huh? honestly...
So does anybody know if this will be making the same rounds that films like Toy Story 2 and Dinosaur did (i.e. the theaters equiped with the TI DLP systems?) I'd love to see this on a digital projector at the Harkin's here in Phoenix...
try Netflix.com, quite a good selection, $15 a month for unlimited rentals...
which dub did you see? cause the one i have on my DVD is absolute crap.
Having watched the entire Evangelion series in subbed Japanese, I just got the the first DVD collection, and I have to tell you, watching it with the English dub makes me physically ill. Not only is the voice acting piss poor, but I don't think that they did a good job of getting voice actors who's voices have the right intonation and subtleties. I had the same complaint with Lain; in Japanese, Lain's voice is meed and reserved, very fitting to the character. In English, she just sounds like a valley girl
oh yeah? then how come more people don't?
Bull...
True, much of the purely theoretical work does occur in an academic setting, most universities can't hold a candle to the resources present in a commercial biotech company to produce actual product. not only do they tend to have better physical resources, but the promise of higher salary and benefits attracts more scientific talent. believe me, if you had the choice between going to work for a high paying biotech company or staying at the university as a grad student for meager wages, where would you end up?
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2001 did an EXCELLENT job of a realistic near-future space expidition. Aside from overly optimistic predictions of our progress by the year 2001, that is. Oh, and the sentient computer turning on its masters as well. (Both of these flaws can be forgiven tho I think, as they were very common themes in 1960's SciFi.)
Actually, one of the big things about 2001 when it came out was the fact that it was the first work of science fiction that blatantly broke Asimov's Laws of Robotics...sure, there had been killer robots around before, but none that were doing so of their own volition..
Regarding your point #2...
Many of the points of scientific creationism have been put to a scientific test, and failed miserably; people like Dwayne Gish and Henry Morris (of the Creation Research Institute), however, usually just tend to ignore the real science thats going on and focus on their own brand of rhetorical pseudoscience. Critical creationist "facts" such as the age of the earth and the Deluvian creation of the Grand Canyon truly do not stand up to serious geological investigation...the creationists are very fond of using data manipulation and a selective ignorance of findings to support their cause. They tend to make reference to older hypothesis and methods which, while they did have some scientific basis twenty years ago, have since been either disproven entirely or ammended (of course, the creationists never bother to mention this, and go on to use them to back up all of their claims). So yes, creationism can be viewed as a scientific theory, but when it does so, it fails miserably...
I think that the problem that a lot of people have with MtM, as opposed to Pitch Black, is that MtM has been making this big deal about how scientifically accurate its supposed to be (I've seen at least three or four TV specials where they drag out some NASA dude to comment on the authenticity of the spacecraft), and then throws the kind of crap like "That DNA looks human." Pitch Black never makes any claims to being anything other than fun. Movies don't always have to be ultra-realistic...but MtM was trying to claim that it was...
not to nitpick your nitpicking, but some of us geneticists do use those big color displays with rotating 3D models of a DNA strand...i'm writing my thesis on it...sometimes it can be quite helpful
my friends all look at me wierd when I crack up laughing everytime i hear that line in the commercials...maybe i've just been taking too many molecular biology classes, but that really makes me laugh
Where did he even mention Christian theology in his post? Somebody's a bit defensive, eh?
I hope that those reactions don't take place in our bodies, otherwise we'd all be green...and they most certainly do occur with mistakes...there's no way in hell that any biological process is 100% efficient
Mathematics is an abstract way of thinking though...the only reason that we can think about mathematics in the way we do is because we have defined it in the way we do...math is a descriptive discipline, not an emperic one
I know that you were being sarcastic, but a lot of sociologists do believe that the reason that we never had the big war with the USSR during the Cold War era was because we did have nukes. Both sides knew deep down that if they did start anything, we'd all be fucked...
This is a self enforcing arguement: The Bible says that itself is True, therefore it must be True. YThis is the classical arguement for the existance of God in classical philosophy, and really doesn't hold much, if any credence now adays. You should do some reading up on a priori and a posteriori logic