The problem is that everything you do that you don't want at least one person to know about is a potential way to blackmail you. For example, do you limit your donations to the Democrats to less then $250 because you know your Republican boss can check online to see which employees to fire or not promote or not give a raise to? That's an implicit blackmail.
Then there is explicit blackmail, like the person with access to the database that sees who is driving in crackville and threatens to report them, unless. Or the person who makes obvious 'detours' to his secretary's apartment every so often.
So can anyone in the UK vouch for problems like this due to 24x7 surveillance?
They have to charge $20 since not many people (relatively speaking) will purchase it. If they knew 50 million people were going to purchase, then they could charge a lot less.
That makes sense for the lonely developer, however applying that to MS, Adobe, et al. does not work. In their case it is just greed (and *some* R&D). Want to run Veritas Netbackup DataCenter SAN Media Server on a 4 CPU system instead of a 2 CPU system? Pay them an additional $1000 for no damn reason whatsoever. It doesn't cost them any more because it's the same program, just a certificate that says what you have and so it is free money basically for them.
Not that things are much better on the Mac (which I use mostly now on the desktop). I downloaded this program, RDC Menu, to launch multiple instance of Windows Remote Desktop Client. There's the standard "trial" and "paid" versions. The author wanted money just to enable the "bookmarks" feature so you could save your connection profiles and select them from a list in the statusbar. I said screw that and I just wrote my own damn program to do it. Took me all of a few hours to get it working the way I wanted. Only functional difference between the two programs is that RDC Menu is more polished (graphics, icons, language translations, etc).
The version of Remote Desktop that comes with Windows XP doesn't let you setup remote sessions however the version of Remote Desktop that comes in the administrative tools (adminpak.msi) installer does let you create and save server sessions and have more than one open at once as well (all within the main RDC window). If you had installed that on XP then you wouldn't have had to create your own version of it.
You boot your computer every day? I'll chime in here as a regular employee (not a supervisor or mgr). I leave my PC on all the time and only reboot for new patches or if I run into another memory leak in the svchost.exe binary. I have XP installed so a boot takes about 25-30 seconds and since I usually have open multiple Word docs, outlook, excel, an IM client, and multiple explorer windows all at once it would be counter-productive for me to close and reopen those everyday. When I come in the mid-morning (somewhere between 9 and 10am) I check my e-mail and then either dive right into what I was working on the day before when I went home or look at the project todo list (aka schedule) to see what should be worked on next. Then throughout the day I'll surf the net anywhere from 5 to 30 min depending on how busy the day is to take breaks from the monotony of documentation, I'll chat with a few coworkers about the weekend but also discuss work-related items if necessary, and attend any of the weekly meetings scheduled depending on the day. Given I work on gov't projects, the day to day stuff can be highly dynamic (especially since I'm not on the development team) but we do have the project schedule to guide us.
I still have my music mindiscs, some of them about 10 years old. There's something about that size, the protective case, and even the colors that makes the form factor interesting. I'd love to be able to have a ~300GB Truecrypt container on a rewritable minidisc-type thing.
It seems that protective cases do not make a storge medium very popular. Any CD drive that used caddies and DVD-RAM both flopped (for some reason some DVD drives still support DVD-RAM though, probably since some video cameras still use them). Although I agree the size of the minidisc is nice (we have the mini CDs too but they don't hold as much as normal CDs and not even close to a DVD of course) the protective case would somehow doom it to fail considering the track record of such a feature with optical media. Maybe using a caddy is just a jinx on the medium or maybe DVD-RAM didn't do so well because it did packet-writing which I've never felt was useful. I know when I'd format a CD for packet writing I'd lose a good bit of the capacity just like formatting a hard drive makes you lose capacity because of file system overhead. I never liked that.
Maybe because you want the new code to "look like" the old code in the same file?
Maybe because you're not using an IDE?
Maybe because if the IDE reformats all your code you wind up with the entire file as a diff when you check it in to your source code control system?
All valid points, however Eclipse can collapse methods to minimize the amount of visible code. The method code doesn't really get deleted, so an IDE should be able to also wrap stuff the same way, virtually and for the same reason: readability. This helps someone who is using the IDE w/o messing up developers who like basic text editors. It also doesn't mess up your source control system. Make it an option/preference and you solve the first gripe you mentioned about the code not looking the same as the original.
I try again. I get asked for the invoice number. "Sure, we'll send you the new password by post. You'll get it in 1-2 days." Nothing happens. Some 3 days later, I try again. "Sure, we'll send you the new password by post. You'll get it in 1-2 days." Repeat. At some point I get majorly annoyed and start calling daily. "Ah, oops, it wasn't changed, you'll get the new one by post." The circus repeated verbatim for one and a half months.
Tell me again why you kept believing them after the first 3 times of not receiving the password despite them saying you would? How many times does someone have to call wolf before you stop believing them so you can take more drastic action? I can tell you that I definitely wouldn't be letting them drag me along for 6 weeks. Geez. You did most of the damage yourself and they just let it happen because they knew nothing else would come of their lies. Assuming someone is nice and ethical is great because you give them the benefit of the doubt but it shouldn't take you 6 weeks to figure out that something isn't right. It seems to run in your family though so I guess it's genetic.
What would be truly fair is if supermarket-stockers made a fair living wage.
Although I won't disagree that would be fair but it may not be a good idea for another reason. Ever hear about how a butterfly's wings flapping half a world away can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world? The weather could be said to be that unstable, just like economics. Interest rates, currency values, etc. are all very sensitive to changes. Currency goes down in value and the amount of national exports goes up because they are cheaper for everyone else to buy them but imports become more expensive.
Increasing the wage of all supermarket stockboys could increase the cost of all the food in the store thus making you spend more for milk and eggs (and everything else in the store) which means you have less to save up for your new addition to your house which causes the contractor that you were going to hire to be laid off because he was counting on your new project to keep money flowing into his household and so on. Increasing the wages of the minimum wage folks was the topic of discussion among millions of people as Congress debated this 6 months ago or so. You can't expect businesses to increase wages willy nilly without it having repercussions. The folks who would get the raise either end up getting let go because a small restaurant can't afford to keep them or the restaurant raises prices to compensate which costs you money in the end. It's funny how someone getting paid more costs you more money isn't it? Economics is that sensitive to change.
Quantum mechanics does weird stuff when you measure it (probability field of position/velocity).
When something is measured, it collapses it... What causes the collapse?
In the Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene says that the collapse doesn't happen when a human views a particle. He provides various other theories about what causes the collapse to have already occurred prior to us observing the particle. But one topic he discusses that seems to make sense is decoherence. Decoherence occurs when small particles interact with the particles of larger objects. They "nudge" the big object's wavefunction or interrupt its coherence. By doing that, our observing an object no longer shows an interference effect. This puts us back to a situation that we experience in everyday life. A cat is not both dead and alive. It's one or the other. And when a cat is in a box the decoherence effects occur almost, but not quite, instantaneously with our observation of the cat and it is thus predetermined (and redetermined) millions or billions of times a fraction of a second (each time a small particle interferes with the wavefunctions of an individual particle of the cat) prior to observing the cat. One the final determination is made (based on the last particle, like a photon, interfering with the cat) before we see the cat which causes its wavefunction to collapse, not because of our observation, but because of the other particles interrupting its coherence. Also realize that decoherence doesn't prevent the need for all probabilities to still fight to win out. One of the probabilities still must win out over all others.
As a side note, the many universes theory doesn't contain wave functions that collapse.
As a gay man, I take positive representations where I can get them. Any time a same-gender relationship is portrayed in a positive but very real light benefits us all. The same can be said of Linux, which, much like being gay, will likely remain a minority OS in the a world that seems married to proprietary software, and never really "come out of the closet" and be truly ready for acceptance the desktop. But anytime we can get some good press, it helps us all. I'm a big fan of Ubuntu (even over Mac!) and I'm proud that Dell has taken a stand and acknowledged that some of us are different, and thats ok.
Um, I think I prefer the car analogy over the homosexual analogy. That's all I'll say considering anything else said in defense of heterosexuality would be considered flamebait/troll in the world we live in today.
Although the leap to Bush is a bit tedious to make this many times in one day... he does have a point. How do we prepare our youth for their adult lives when they see society's role models, government officials, sports superstars, members of the church, etc... committing breaches of ethics on a daily basis?
Ask Bill C. and Monica L. I'm sure they have some pointers they can give to the youngsters concerning ethics, specifically extra-marital affairs. Maybe they can also do an anti-smoking campaign using cigars. Also, the problem isn't that there isn't anyone in society with good ethics because any member of a group of people can have bad or good ethics, the problem is that the media focus on the bad. There are good sports stars, there are good gov't officials (I think), but we don't know who they are if they exist because the media doesn't celebrate that....their ratings probably suggest that we don't even care about that. We want to find out who the father is of a child of a porn star who overdosed on methadone instead.
Actually... it's more like going in for an oil change and when you get your car, you find out that they opened your trunk, opened your briefcase you had locked in the truck, and copied all your personal documents inside the briefcase. So you return to find your oil changed and your racy picture of your girlfriend up on the wall.
She was up on the wall when I brought my car in. And her name is Miss May.
Just wanted to set the record straight for those who may use this info as reference later on. Eddington traveled to the island of Principe off the coast of Africa (not the Pacific like I said before). Also, it occurred in 1919, 4 years after Einstein finished his general relativity equations. There was actually another team involved in the measurements who traveled to Brazil to witness the same solar eclipse. They compared their findings with their base set of photographs taken earlier to determine that gravitational lensing really does occur when light travels near a massive object.
C# is just a language, one of several that runs on the.NET platform. (Microsoft doesn't like the word "platform", but it's the only one that fits.) So when you're analyzing market share, you need to compare Java with.NET, not with C#.
They don't like "platform" which is why they call.NET a framework. Why doesn't that word fit? I agree the comparison with Java should be with.NET but it's a framework, not a platform, at least using MS's terminology.
Does it also defeat cancer, cure the common cold, disintegrate warts, and eliminate smelly feet? It seems like a lot of big claims are being made for something just discovered.
In many cases, theory leads experimental evidence so when experiments backup theory (and especially theory already being applied in other areas) the results of the experiments and their implications are already expected due to the implications provided by the theory. It was at least a decade I believe after Einstein's equations dictated that gravitational lensing should happen that Eddington traveled to the Pacific to witness a solar eclipse and was able to conduct an experiment that finally proved what Einstein's equations already told us.
A pentabyte is 5 bytes, right? How hard is it to store 20 bits on paper?;)
20 bits probably isn't hard to get stored on paper but when you consider 40 bits (which is what 5 bytes would really be) maybe that's when you start running into problems. Maybe use both sides of the paper maybe just like both sides of a hard disk platter are used?
I was waiting for Megan Fox to transform into a naked chick but never saw it. Were there supposed to be transformers in the movie? If so I never noticed them. I may have to watch the DVD in slow motion to find them. Of course, slow motion just extends the time Megan Fox is hanging over the open hood of that car....um..I gotta go relieve some uh, stress, yes, that's it, stress.
Actually, the latest Wired says that (in a talk with Michael Bay), 1 frame with multiple bots took about 38 hours to render. Of course, that was using whatever ILM had at the time. Those CGI companies always try to keep their farms up to date to pack more power into the same acreage.
But actually we know all this. Yes it was complex. Maybe this is why they took something like 100 million dollars for it.
About $150 million actually. The complexity this time came from making an automobile believably transform into a robot. Bay says the hardest part was when semi wheels turn into feet. I do hope for a sequel. Considering its lineage and the movie itself, I liked it better than, for example, Pirates 3 which may or may not mean much if you despised that movie.
I was prepared for it and it didn't matter to me that much. Bay had a deal with Chevy and since that was the new Camaro that is coming out either later this year or next (forget when it's first model year is) it made sense for him to use their car from that perspective. The fact it wasn't what Bumblebee used to be didn't really matter to me. The same source that told me Bumblebee was no longer a Camaro also told me Optimus Prime would have lips. He only wore his mask for a few seconds of the movie but I guess it didn't detract too much from the movie. I think the movie had a lot of good humor in it without too many stupid lines (fewer than the last few movies I've seen recently: Die Hard 4, Pirates 3, and Ocean's 13). I would have preferred a lot more transformers to be in the movie and for more battles to occur. My source is the latest issue of Wired. One of their writers talked with Michael Bay a few months back before the release.
The hard thing that always happens with Transformers shows or movies is that unless the director can be on the transformer who is talking you can get lost in who is saying what because you can't see them talking. I know a few times in the movie I wasn't quite sure who said what, you just have to pay attention to who may be moving around especially in a shot that includes 2 or more of them in order to figure out who is the focus of the shot at that time. It was just nice to be able to see the transformers again, in a good light, and enjoy the movie. It brought me back to my childhood a bit and I enjoyed it because of that.
Aren't you supposed to leave your vehicle where it stopped in order for the police to properly document the accident scene? If it occurs on an interstate there may be an exception in that case (high traffic *and* high speeds) but otherwise until at least the cops can document what happened I think the vehicles are suppposed to stay where they are at the time of the accident.
God forbid we should promote tolerance - much better that bigotry is espoused as a national value.
I don't have to accept their lifestyle nor do I have to tolerate it. I don't see any other special interest group trying to get society to accept them so why do homosexuals need to do it? I don't tolerate murderers and rapists for the same reason I don't tolerate homosexuals: it is wrong. Nothing says that I have to accept any of those groups or their actions. Even a hate crime only comes into play if I invoke physical violence on a homosexual (although they are getting so much special treatment lately that a bill is trying to be passed where simply saying something that may hurt their feelings would be a hate crime). Promoting tolerance is the same as saying it is okay and it is not. Even Christians, who are always branded as pushing their beliefs onto others, do not have corporate backing like the homosexuals do. If corporations promoted tolerance of Christianity people like you would be up in arms saying "Don't push your beliefs onto others when it isn't invited" or something to that effect. I don't want homosexual beliefs pushed onto me because it isn't invited and millions of other people feel the same way. Care to explain that double standard? God forbid we should promote tolerance of Christians - much better that bigotry is espoused as a national value.
Well the question is could it get any worse for Bush? He can't get elected for a third term, his approval rating is lower that any other president, the Democrats do not have the balls to impeach Cheney, let alone Bush, etc. Will American people march in the streets against him? very unlikely, they're too busy following the lives of spoiled celebrities. It just can't get any worse for Bush.
Could it get worse? Yeah, his approval rating could be as bad as that great Congress we rely on. Their approval is 14%. Although Bush wanted the bill passed too and was going to sign it (he would be able to bring us one step closer to being a North American Union), Congress is the entity to blame for trying to pass a bill that would legalize millions of people who broke the law. I don't see them trying to do that for those "criminals" who want to play DVDs under Linux. Thankfully, enough of the population of the US complained to the right people and the bill was defeated, for now. Bush may not be doing the will of the people (i.e. legal citizens) but neither is Congress. The approval ratings of each reflect this problem.
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The problem is that everything you do that you don't want at least one person to know about is a potential way to blackmail you. For example, do you limit your donations to the Democrats to less then $250 because you know your Republican boss can check online to see which employees to fire or not promote or not give a raise to? That's an implicit blackmail. Then there is explicit blackmail, like the person with access to the database that sees who is driving in crackville and threatens to report them, unless. Or the person who makes obvious 'detours' to his secretary's apartment every so often.
So can anyone in the UK vouch for problems like this due to 24x7 surveillance?
They have to charge $20 since not many people (relatively speaking) will purchase it. If they knew 50 million people were going to purchase, then they could charge a lot less.
That makes sense for the lonely developer, however applying that to MS, Adobe, et al. does not work. In their case it is just greed (and *some* R&D). Want to run Veritas Netbackup DataCenter SAN Media Server on a 4 CPU system instead of a 2 CPU system? Pay them an additional $1000 for no damn reason whatsoever. It doesn't cost them any more because it's the same program, just a certificate that says what you have and so it is free money basically for them.
Not that things are much better on the Mac (which I use mostly now on the desktop). I downloaded this program, RDC Menu, to launch multiple instance of Windows Remote Desktop Client. There's the standard "trial" and "paid" versions. The author wanted money just to enable the "bookmarks" feature so you could save your connection profiles and select them from a list in the statusbar. I said screw that and I just wrote my own damn program to do it. Took me all of a few hours to get it working the way I wanted. Only functional difference between the two programs is that RDC Menu is more polished (graphics, icons, language translations, etc).
The version of Remote Desktop that comes with Windows XP doesn't let you setup remote sessions however the version of Remote Desktop that comes in the administrative tools (adminpak.msi) installer does let you create and save server sessions and have more than one open at once as well (all within the main RDC window). If you had installed that on XP then you wouldn't have had to create your own version of it.
You boot your computer every day? I'll chime in here as a regular employee (not a supervisor or mgr). I leave my PC on all the time and only reboot for new patches or if I run into another memory leak in the svchost.exe binary. I have XP installed so a boot takes about 25-30 seconds and since I usually have open multiple Word docs, outlook, excel, an IM client, and multiple explorer windows all at once it would be counter-productive for me to close and reopen those everyday. When I come in the mid-morning (somewhere between 9 and 10am) I check my e-mail and then either dive right into what I was working on the day before when I went home or look at the project todo list (aka schedule) to see what should be worked on next. Then throughout the day I'll surf the net anywhere from 5 to 30 min depending on how busy the day is to take breaks from the monotony of documentation, I'll chat with a few coworkers about the weekend but also discuss work-related items if necessary, and attend any of the weekly meetings scheduled depending on the day. Given I work on gov't projects, the day to day stuff can be highly dynamic (especially since I'm not on the development team) but we do have the project schedule to guide us.
I still have my music mindiscs, some of them about 10 years old. There's something about that size, the protective case, and even the colors that makes the form factor interesting. I'd love to be able to have a ~300GB Truecrypt container on a rewritable minidisc-type thing.
It seems that protective cases do not make a storge medium very popular. Any CD drive that used caddies and DVD-RAM both flopped (for some reason some DVD drives still support DVD-RAM though, probably since some video cameras still use them). Although I agree the size of the minidisc is nice (we have the mini CDs too but they don't hold as much as normal CDs and not even close to a DVD of course) the protective case would somehow doom it to fail considering the track record of such a feature with optical media. Maybe using a caddy is just a jinx on the medium or maybe DVD-RAM didn't do so well because it did packet-writing which I've never felt was useful. I know when I'd format a CD for packet writing I'd lose a good bit of the capacity just like formatting a hard drive makes you lose capacity because of file system overhead. I never liked that.
A giant dashboard jesus? Here's a more sensible list:
Just goes to show you that not everyone in this world hates religion but obviously others (Rix) feel differently about it.
Maybe because you want the new code to "look like" the old code in the same file?
Maybe because you're not using an IDE?
Maybe because if the IDE reformats all your code you wind up with the entire file as a diff when you check it in to your source code control system?
All valid points, however Eclipse can collapse methods to minimize the amount of visible code. The method code doesn't really get deleted, so an IDE should be able to also wrap stuff the same way, virtually and for the same reason: readability. This helps someone who is using the IDE w/o messing up developers who like basic text editors. It also doesn't mess up your source control system. Make it an option/preference and you solve the first gripe you mentioned about the code not looking the same as the original.
I try again. I get asked for the invoice number. "Sure, we'll send you the new password by post. You'll get it in 1-2 days." Nothing happens. Some 3 days later, I try again. "Sure, we'll send you the new password by post. You'll get it in 1-2 days." Repeat. At some point I get majorly annoyed and start calling daily. "Ah, oops, it wasn't changed, you'll get the new one by post." The circus repeated verbatim for one and a half months.
Tell me again why you kept believing them after the first 3 times of not receiving the password despite them saying you would? How many times does someone have to call wolf before you stop believing them so you can take more drastic action? I can tell you that I definitely wouldn't be letting them drag me along for 6 weeks. Geez. You did most of the damage yourself and they just let it happen because they knew nothing else would come of their lies. Assuming someone is nice and ethical is great because you give them the benefit of the doubt but it shouldn't take you 6 weeks to figure out that something isn't right. It seems to run in your family though so I guess it's genetic.
What would be truly fair is if supermarket-stockers made a fair living wage.
Although I won't disagree that would be fair but it may not be a good idea for another reason. Ever hear about how a butterfly's wings flapping half a world away can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world? The weather could be said to be that unstable, just like economics. Interest rates, currency values, etc. are all very sensitive to changes. Currency goes down in value and the amount of national exports goes up because they are cheaper for everyone else to buy them but imports become more expensive.
Increasing the wage of all supermarket stockboys could increase the cost of all the food in the store thus making you spend more for milk and eggs (and everything else in the store) which means you have less to save up for your new addition to your house which causes the contractor that you were going to hire to be laid off because he was counting on your new project to keep money flowing into his household and so on. Increasing the wages of the minimum wage folks was the topic of discussion among millions of people as Congress debated this 6 months ago or so. You can't expect businesses to increase wages willy nilly without it having repercussions. The folks who would get the raise either end up getting let go because a small restaurant can't afford to keep them or the restaurant raises prices to compensate which costs you money in the end. It's funny how someone getting paid more costs you more money isn't it? Economics is that sensitive to change.
Quantum mechanics does weird stuff when you measure it (probability field of position/velocity).
When something is measured, it collapses it... What causes the collapse?
In the Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene says that the collapse doesn't happen when a human views a particle. He provides various other theories about what causes the collapse to have already occurred prior to us observing the particle. But one topic he discusses that seems to make sense is decoherence. Decoherence occurs when small particles interact with the particles of larger objects. They "nudge" the big object's wavefunction or interrupt its coherence. By doing that, our observing an object no longer shows an interference effect. This puts us back to a situation that we experience in everyday life. A cat is not both dead and alive. It's one or the other. And when a cat is in a box the decoherence effects occur almost, but not quite, instantaneously with our observation of the cat and it is thus predetermined (and redetermined) millions or billions of times a fraction of a second (each time a small particle interferes with the wavefunctions of an individual particle of the cat) prior to observing the cat. One the final determination is made (based on the last particle, like a photon, interfering with the cat) before we see the cat which causes its wavefunction to collapse, not because of our observation, but because of the other particles interrupting its coherence. Also realize that decoherence doesn't prevent the need for all probabilities to still fight to win out. One of the probabilities still must win out over all others.
As a side note, the many universes theory doesn't contain wave functions that collapse.
As a gay man, I take positive representations where I can get them. Any time a same-gender relationship is portrayed in a positive but very real light benefits us all. The same can be said of Linux, which, much like being gay, will likely remain a minority OS in the a world that seems married to proprietary software, and never really "come out of the closet" and be truly ready for acceptance the desktop. But anytime we can get some good press, it helps us all. I'm a big fan of Ubuntu (even over Mac!) and I'm proud that Dell has taken a stand and acknowledged that some of us are different, and thats ok.
Um, I think I prefer the car analogy over the homosexual analogy. That's all I'll say considering anything else said in defense of heterosexuality would be considered flamebait/troll in the world we live in today.
Although the leap to Bush is a bit tedious to make this many times in one day... he does have a point. How do we prepare our youth for their adult lives when they see society's role models, government officials, sports superstars, members of the church, etc... committing breaches of ethics on a daily basis?
Ask Bill C. and Monica L. I'm sure they have some pointers they can give to the youngsters concerning ethics, specifically extra-marital affairs. Maybe they can also do an anti-smoking campaign using cigars. Also, the problem isn't that there isn't anyone in society with good ethics because any member of a group of people can have bad or good ethics, the problem is that the media focus on the bad. There are good sports stars, there are good gov't officials (I think), but we don't know who they are if they exist because the media doesn't celebrate that....their ratings probably suggest that we don't even care about that. We want to find out who the father is of a child of a porn star who overdosed on methadone instead.
Actually... it's more like going in for an oil change and when you get your car, you find out that they opened your trunk, opened your briefcase you had locked in the truck, and copied all your personal documents inside the briefcase. So you return to find your oil changed and your racy picture of your girlfriend up on the wall.
She was up on the wall when I brought my car in. And her name is Miss May.
Just wanted to set the record straight for those who may use this info as reference later on. Eddington traveled to the island of Principe off the coast of Africa (not the Pacific like I said before). Also, it occurred in 1919, 4 years after Einstein finished his general relativity equations. There was actually another team involved in the measurements who traveled to Brazil to witness the same solar eclipse. They compared their findings with their base set of photographs taken earlier to determine that gravitational lensing really does occur when light travels near a massive object.
Too many people say stuff like "just wanted to add my .02 cents" which IMO deals a severe blow to their credibility.
Coincidentally those are the people who work for Verizon.
C# is just a language, one of several that runs on the .NET platform. (Microsoft doesn't like the word "platform", but it's the only one that fits.) So when you're analyzing market share, you need to compare Java with .NET, not with C#.
They don't like "platform" which is why they call .NET a framework. Why doesn't that word fit? I agree the comparison with Java should be with .NET but it's a framework, not a platform, at least using MS's terminology.
Does it also defeat cancer, cure the common cold, disintegrate warts, and eliminate smelly feet? It seems like a lot of big claims are being made for something just discovered.
In many cases, theory leads experimental evidence so when experiments backup theory (and especially theory already being applied in other areas) the results of the experiments and their implications are already expected due to the implications provided by the theory. It was at least a decade I believe after Einstein's equations dictated that gravitational lensing should happen that Eddington traveled to the Pacific to witness a solar eclipse and was able to conduct an experiment that finally proved what Einstein's equations already told us.
Correct you are.
A pentabyte is 5 bytes, right? How hard is it to store 20 bits on paper? ;)
20 bits probably isn't hard to get stored on paper but when you consider 40 bits (which is what 5 bytes would really be) maybe that's when you start running into problems. Maybe use both sides of the paper maybe just like both sides of a hard disk platter are used?
I was waiting for Megan Fox to transform into a naked chick but never saw it. Were there supposed to be transformers in the movie? If so I never noticed them. I may have to watch the DVD in slow motion to find them. Of course, slow motion just extends the time Megan Fox is hanging over the open hood of that car....um..I gotta go relieve some uh, stress, yes, that's it, stress.
"One frame renders in a week on a supercomputer".
Actually, the latest Wired says that (in a talk with Michael Bay), 1 frame with multiple bots took about 38 hours to render. Of course, that was using whatever ILM had at the time. Those CGI companies always try to keep their farms up to date to pack more power into the same acreage.
But actually we know all this. Yes it was complex. Maybe this is why they took something like 100 million dollars for it.
About $150 million actually. The complexity this time came from making an automobile believably transform into a robot. Bay says the hardest part was when semi wheels turn into feet. I do hope for a sequel. Considering its lineage and the movie itself, I liked it better than, for example, Pirates 3 which may or may not mean much if you despised that movie.
I was prepared for it and it didn't matter to me that much. Bay had a deal with Chevy and since that was the new Camaro that is coming out either later this year or next (forget when it's first model year is) it made sense for him to use their car from that perspective. The fact it wasn't what Bumblebee used to be didn't really matter to me. The same source that told me Bumblebee was no longer a Camaro also told me Optimus Prime would have lips. He only wore his mask for a few seconds of the movie but I guess it didn't detract too much from the movie. I think the movie had a lot of good humor in it without too many stupid lines (fewer than the last few movies I've seen recently: Die Hard 4, Pirates 3, and Ocean's 13). I would have preferred a lot more transformers to be in the movie and for more battles to occur. My source is the latest issue of Wired. One of their writers talked with Michael Bay a few months back before the release.
The hard thing that always happens with Transformers shows or movies is that unless the director can be on the transformer who is talking you can get lost in who is saying what because you can't see them talking. I know a few times in the movie I wasn't quite sure who said what, you just have to pay attention to who may be moving around especially in a shot that includes 2 or more of them in order to figure out who is the focus of the shot at that time. It was just nice to be able to see the transformers again, in a good light, and enjoy the movie. It brought me back to my childhood a bit and I enjoyed it because of that.
Aren't you supposed to leave your vehicle where it stopped in order for the police to properly document the accident scene? If it occurs on an interstate there may be an exception in that case (high traffic *and* high speeds) but otherwise until at least the cops can document what happened I think the vehicles are suppposed to stay where they are at the time of the accident.
God forbid we should promote tolerance - much better that bigotry is espoused as a national value.
I don't have to accept their lifestyle nor do I have to tolerate it. I don't see any other special interest group trying to get society to accept them so why do homosexuals need to do it? I don't tolerate murderers and rapists for the same reason I don't tolerate homosexuals: it is wrong. Nothing says that I have to accept any of those groups or their actions. Even a hate crime only comes into play if I invoke physical violence on a homosexual (although they are getting so much special treatment lately that a bill is trying to be passed where simply saying something that may hurt their feelings would be a hate crime). Promoting tolerance is the same as saying it is okay and it is not. Even Christians, who are always branded as pushing their beliefs onto others, do not have corporate backing like the homosexuals do. If corporations promoted tolerance of Christianity people like you would be up in arms saying "Don't push your beliefs onto others when it isn't invited" or something to that effect. I don't want homosexual beliefs pushed onto me because it isn't invited and millions of other people feel the same way. Care to explain that double standard? God forbid we should promote tolerance of Christians - much better that bigotry is espoused as a national value.
Well the question is could it get any worse for Bush? He can't get elected for a third term, his approval rating is lower that any other president, the Democrats do not have the balls to impeach Cheney, let alone Bush, etc. Will American people march in the streets against him? very unlikely, they're too busy following the lives of spoiled celebrities. It just can't get any worse for Bush.
Could it get worse? Yeah, his approval rating could be as bad as that great Congress we rely on. Their approval is 14%. Although Bush wanted the bill passed too and was going to sign it (he would be able to bring us one step closer to being a North American Union), Congress is the entity to blame for trying to pass a bill that would legalize millions of people who broke the law. I don't see them trying to do that for those "criminals" who want to play DVDs under Linux. Thankfully, enough of the population of the US complained to the right people and the bill was defeated, for now. Bush may not be doing the will of the people (i.e. legal citizens) but neither is Congress. The approval ratings of each reflect this problem.