"The Philosophers' Football Match was a comedy sketch on Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus and later a part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
The sketch depicted a football match between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking while walking on the pitch in circles. This left Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch (and a "surprise inclusion" in the German team, according to the commentary), more than a little confused. Confucius was the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine were the linesmen."
I forget who finally "gets it" and does a goal rush. Very funny sketch, what with the announcer enthusiastically describing what is basically nothing happening.
Often what happens is that someone unfamiliar with an established, accepted process discovers something that was seemingly unnoticed before.
Of course, such a situation causes quite a bit of disruption in the status quo and can make news until the idea guy learns a bit more.
I've seen this happen (and been guilty of it myself). Brilliant conceptual ideas almost always come from people who don't know the complicated details. If there is a lot of ego or money invested in a non-workable idea, that's when marketing gets involved.
Correct, at least as far as I can see. You store the energy generated by high-efficiency devices (running at optimum output) during non high-usage periods. It's called peak-shaving, I think.
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Try buying a subscription like I just did. Not only do I still see ads and get confronted with confusing "subscribers only" features, I think this is costing me about four bucks to send this message.
Maybe this is a good opportunity to ask about motion detection and webcams.
For those of you that have this working already, what advice can you give to someone trying to set up such a system?
That is no longer true, with the median house price flirting with $300k.
The boomers are inflating real estate prices by gifting their offspring. This will implode (hopefully slowly, but since when have real estate prices ever degraded gracefully?) as new home buyers will no longer afford to get into the market. Or, wealthy immigrants can continue the insane prices.
Joe and Jane Average, plan on renting for the rest of your lives.
He was dressed in worn out jeans & a wife beater...
What is "wife beater" attire and how/why did this term come about?
I'm assuming that the term comes from 'A Streetcar Named Desire', but why would a simple piece of clothing become associated with such a reprehensible act?
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The very worst thing is to think: Gee whiz, what the hell was that, stand up, and walk over to the window to look outside.
Thanks for all the replies (I'm the original poster/asker).
AVS Forum has been recommended, but that is a flashy, blinky place with confusing instructions for newbies.
I spent 10 minutes carefully explaining (after registering and getting the email response) and then was confronted with some sort of error message. Uh-huh, Okaaay.
The following is what I tried to send:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/21/01 38248 is the article I posted to Slashdot and I was referred to here.
Since you guys are apparently the experts, well, here I am with possibly dumb questions.
I've ruled out plasma due to cost so it's now down to DLP and LCD. But wait, there's LCD projection also (Sony, I think, maybe others)! I'm still confused.
My application will be for a smaller room and I'm thinking that 42" would be a decent size. I don't need an internal HD tuner as there aren't over-the-air HD broadcasts in my area. I'd like to be able to output my computer's display (I do CAD work often, but usually it's just email and browsing) to the TV with a PIP of whatever is being broadcast.
Having looked at DLP options, I am impressed with the size, technology and relative cost but the "millions of tiny moving mirrors" and the limited vertical viewing angle worries me. LCD seems to be a better choice in that regard, but I find that they are more expensive. I also have fairly high-end LCD computer monitors and have noticed dead pixels recently.
In addition, I'm in Canada. Model numbers are not always the same, so I think many of us get confused when doing comparisons.
Consider "real" engineering (mechanical, civil, even electrical). Many old-timers in these professions are retiring/have retired. Based on input from my discussion group, there are not enough people getting into this field to replace the out-goers.
With the current generation's "pre-installed" computer knowledge, we need more people to get into the traditional engineering disciplines. It's hard and you might not be in an office every day, but this is going to be a booming area soon.
If you have highly-developed computer/programming skills already, all the better.
How old are you and how old is your marriage? Does your wife work?
I assume that you have no kids.
I say go for it if it is one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. You may not get another one soon and if your current relationship cannot cope with you being away for a few days per week then there might be a problem there.
If there are little kids involved it's a different story.
Not to denigrate the average American (those here tend to be pretty engaging and intelligent), but isn't this what keeps clueless marketers (and peripherally, spam) in business?
Canadians are just as stupid as Americans (percentage-wise), it's just that the actual volume as compared to the US level of morons is insignifigant. America wins again - USA! USA! USA!
Tactile response/feedback is a very important factor for users that are highly trained and skilled.
For example, not having my Rotring 600 technical pencil to design with, I've found that much of my work is now sub-standard. Or maybe its just the wetware that isn't working properly as I get older.
Your subject line should have been "I want into" (assuming you would have meant something other than wearing slinky, sexy girl clothes - not that there's anything inherently wrong with that predilection).
But females tend to jockey for position using words. After dominance is established they all tend to get back together and be friends. Words can hurt real bad, but males (doing the same dominance thing) often use violence *and* words.
A young male that has been effectively emasculated by peers is a dangerous thing.
Recognizing that, what has to change? Should everyone get touchy-feely, "in harmony with their emotions" or should the picked-upon grow some balls and fight back? Or should the rest of the kids step in and say, "that's enough".
I lived for a few decades with someone who thought they were being spied on by the KGB, so I know a little bit about the subject. That was an "interesting" experience, to say the least.
This touches me peripherally. My son is 15, and one of his same-age friends (not a close friend, mind you) hanged himself a few weeks ago. Apparently the boy had been getting picked-on for a long time and one day he snapped. He brought a steel bar to school and cracked a few bullies' heads.
The parent(s) of the bullies sued the family of the bullied. Now, obviously, this kid already had some problems, but 15 year-olds should not be attending funerals for classmates. That sort of thing just didn't happen when I was that age 30 years ago.
I read an interesting theory somewhere that depression is just a manifestation of problems with current society, and that by attempting to treat it as an illness all we're doing is papering over the cracks, so to speak, and masking those problems.
I think that that is a very valid theory, if not actually true. It fits well with many posters here (never before have so many been able to communicate with so many others without being judged by their appearance or feeling peer pressure). As a result, many people that post here don't give a shit about outside pressures to conform, they just write what they think. Of course, I typically read at +5 and most comments at that level are at the least thought-provoking if not enlightening.
I saw an interview with Zeldman (Amber from G4, Canada) and the guy came across as a total dork, definitely not TV-pretty. But the guy is brilliant tech-wise. Some would put him down or attack him for being different.
Show me a fragile mind and I'd be able to do some real damage to it if I felt the need to tear someone else down in order to build myself up. That's typically what cowards do.
I'm a father and I know damn well that you treat everyone with respect. It's not even a religious thing, it just makes sense to do so.
On the other hand, some people (almost always males) are insecure, and crapping on others tends to be a learned behaviour. Read whatever psychology you want into that.
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That would be a waste of Vodka.
"The Philosophers' Football Match was a comedy sketch on Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus and later a part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
i onal-philosophy.htm for a transcript.
The sketch depicted a football match between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking while walking on the pitch in circles. This left Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch (and a "surprise inclusion" in the German team, according to the commentary), more than a little confused. Confucius was the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine were the linesmen."
I forget who finally "gets it" and does a goal rush. Very funny sketch, what with the announcer enthusiastically describing what is basically nothing happening.
See also http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/internat
Just get a widescreen HDTV-ready LCD TV. The commercials look so great, I've bought $3000 worth of stuff since I got the TV.
Often what happens is that someone unfamiliar with an established, accepted process discovers something that was seemingly unnoticed before.
Of course, such a situation causes quite a bit of disruption in the status quo and can make news until the idea guy learns a bit more.
I've seen this happen (and been guilty of it myself). Brilliant conceptual ideas almost always come from people who don't know the complicated details. If there is a lot of ego or money invested in a non-workable idea, that's when marketing gets involved.
Correct, at least as far as I can see. You store the energy generated by high-efficiency devices (running at optimum output) during non high-usage periods. It's called peak-shaving, I think.
Try buying a subscription like I just did. Not only do I still see ads and get confronted with confusing "subscribers only" features, I think this is costing me about four bucks to send this message.
Maybe this is a good opportunity to ask about motion detection and webcams. For those of you that have this working already, what advice can you give to someone trying to set up such a system?
CSS has been around for awhile; hell, I've been using it on my own lame-o site for years. Now it's news apparently.
IMHO life is not about getting to a finish line earliest, but rather about the fruit your presence here produces.
Very well-said, and the subject line is good also.
I did 42 last year, so I now know the secret of the universe.
That is no longer true, with the median house price flirting with $300k.
The boomers are inflating real estate prices by gifting their offspring. This will implode (hopefully slowly, but since when have real estate prices ever degraded gracefully?) as new home buyers will no longer afford to get into the market. Or, wealthy immigrants can continue the insane prices.
Joe and Jane Average, plan on renting for the rest of your lives.
He was dressed in worn out jeans & a wife beater...
What is "wife beater" attire and how/why did this term come about?
I'm assuming that the term comes from 'A Streetcar Named Desire', but why would a simple piece of clothing become associated with such a reprehensible act?
The very worst thing is to think: Gee whiz, what the hell was that, stand up, and walk over to the window to look outside.
That's what happened to many people in the Halifax Explosion.
Thanks for all the replies (I'm the original poster/asker).
AVS Forum has been recommended, but that is a flashy, blinky place with confusing instructions for newbies.
I spent 10 minutes carefully explaining (after registering and getting the email response) and then was confronted with some sort of error message. Uh-huh, Okaaay.
The following is what I tried to send:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/21/0
Since you guys are apparently the experts, well, here I am with possibly dumb questions.
I've ruled out plasma due to cost so it's now down to DLP and LCD. But wait, there's LCD projection also (Sony, I think, maybe others)! I'm still confused.
My application will be for a smaller room and I'm thinking that 42" would be a decent size. I don't need an internal HD tuner as there aren't over-the-air HD broadcasts in my area. I'd like to be able to output my computer's display (I do CAD work often, but usually it's just email and browsing) to the TV with a PIP of whatever is being broadcast.
Having looked at DLP options, I am impressed with the size, technology and relative cost but the "millions of tiny moving mirrors" and the limited vertical viewing angle worries me. LCD seems to be a better choice in that regard, but I find that they are more expensive. I also have fairly high-end LCD computer monitors and have noticed dead pixels recently.
In addition, I'm in Canada. Model numbers are not always the same, so I think many of us get confused when doing comparisons.
Consider "real" engineering (mechanical, civil, even electrical). Many old-timers in these professions are retiring/have retired. Based on input from my discussion group, there are not enough people getting into this field to replace the out-goers.
With the current generation's "pre-installed" computer knowledge, we need more people to get into the traditional engineering disciplines. It's hard and you might not be in an office every day, but this is going to be a booming area soon.
If you have highly-developed computer/programming skills already, all the better.
How old are you and how old is your marriage? Does your wife work? I assume that you have no kids.
I say go for it if it is one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. You may not get another one soon and if your current relationship cannot cope with you being away for a few days per week then there might be a problem there.
If there are little kids involved it's a different story.
...groupthink and herd mentality...
Not to denigrate the average American (those here tend to be pretty engaging and intelligent), but isn't this what keeps clueless marketers (and peripherally, spam) in business?
Canadians are just as stupid as Americans (percentage-wise), it's just that the actual volume as compared to the US level of morons is insignifigant. America wins again - USA! USA! USA!
Thanks. Apparently that model is unavailable in Canada (unless it's sold under a different brand).
Tactile response/feedback is a very important factor for users that are highly trained and skilled.
For example, not having my Rotring 600 technical pencil to design with, I've found that much of my work is now sub-standard. Or maybe its just the wetware that isn't working properly as I get older.
Thanks for that, I nearly dropped my beer while laughing.
I agree, please mod it up to maximum.
Your subject line should have been "I want into" (assuming you would have meant something other than wearing slinky, sexy girl clothes - not that there's anything inherently wrong with that predilection).
Sounds like a dream come true!
But females tend to jockey for position using words. After dominance is established they all tend to get back together and be friends. Words can hurt real bad, but males (doing the same dominance thing) often use violence *and* words.
A young male that has been effectively emasculated by peers is a dangerous thing.
Recognizing that, what has to change? Should everyone get touchy-feely, "in harmony with their emotions" or should the picked-upon grow some balls and fight back? Or should the rest of the kids step in and say, "that's enough".
I lived for a few decades with someone who thought they were being spied on by the KGB, so I know a little bit about the subject. That was an "interesting" experience, to say the least.
No need to apologize.
I agree.
This touches me peripherally. My son is 15, and one of his same-age friends (not a close friend, mind you) hanged himself a few weeks ago. Apparently the boy had been getting picked-on for a long time and one day he snapped. He brought a steel bar to school and cracked a few bullies' heads.
The parent(s) of the bullies sued the family of the bullied. Now, obviously, this kid already had some problems, but 15 year-olds should not be attending funerals for classmates. That sort of thing just didn't happen when I was that age 30 years ago.
I read an interesting theory somewhere that depression is just a manifestation of problems with current society, and that by attempting to treat it as an illness all we're doing is papering over the cracks, so to speak, and masking those problems.
I think that that is a very valid theory, if not actually true. It fits well with many posters here (never before have so many been able to communicate with so many others without being judged by their appearance or feeling peer pressure). As a result, many people that post here don't give a shit about outside pressures to conform, they just write what they think. Of course, I typically read at +5 and most comments at that level are at the least thought-provoking if not enlightening.
I saw an interview with Zeldman (Amber from G4, Canada) and the guy came across as a total dork, definitely not TV-pretty. But the guy is brilliant tech-wise. Some would put him down or attack him for being different.
Show me a fragile mind and I'd be able to do some real damage to it if I felt the need to tear someone else down in order to build myself up. That's typically what cowards do.
I'm a father and I know damn well that you treat everyone with respect. It's not even a religious thing, it just makes sense to do so.
On the other hand, some people (almost always males) are insecure, and crapping on others tends to be a learned behaviour. Read whatever psychology you want into that.